Also: Pittsburgh shooting: suspect railed against
Jews and Muslims on site used by 'alt-right' (The Guardian, Australia) Oct 28 - The alleged gunman who reportedly shouted “all Jews must die” before
opening fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday appears to have regularly
posted antisemitic conspiracy theories on an extremist social media site,
including accusing Jewish people of trying to bring “evil” Muslims into the
United States.

Also: The ADL warned of antisemitic harassment.
Then Pittsburgh happened (The
Guardian, Australia) Oct 28 – (Opinion: Cas Mudde) On Saturday morning, I woke up to an article
about a new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which concludes that
“far-right extremists have ramped up an intimidating wave of anti-Semitic
harassment against Jewish journalists, political candidates and others ahead of
next month’s US midterm elections”.

Also: Ireland votes to oust ‘medieval’ blasphemy
law (The Guardian, Australia)
Oct 28 - Campaigners in Ireland celebrated the end of a “medieval” ban on blasphemy
on Saturday, after voters overwhelmingly supported a referendum to remove the
offence from the constitution.